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Collections of Learning & Teacher Resources:

Great search engine just for education- facts, data, videos, quizzes!: Gooru

Collections of Project Resources:

• Good and engaging 8th grade ELA project ideas: 21st century skills

Writing prompts:

• Cool pics with questions for pondering -see their archives: http://thoughtquestions.com/

Writing:

• Examples of great student writing: http://www.artandwriting.org/

Vocabulary building:

• Lots of ideas and activities: visualthesaurus

  
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Storytellling:

• Create online interactive stories: inklewriter

Get their curriculum for problem solving & story telling: SparkTruck

Copy and paste in a student's writing to show them thier overuse of specific words: wordle

Literary Devices:

• Irony & Sarcasm Station: Ask Mr. T for file

Character Development:

• Create a text message conversation between two characters with this free tool - no login required!: http://www.classtools.net/SMS/

Propaganda & Critical Thinking:

Bias in the News:

• Get trustable news rated by citizens: Newstrust

• Students can use this community tool to develop or prove their critical thinking skills on major news events - via active fact checking right on this site: Truthsquad

Marketing Mass-Consumerism:

http://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/

Positive advertisements:
Posters to help end homelessness:
http://www.sfprintcollective.com/coh-posters.html

Poetry:

• Teach and have fun with poetry in song/rap- has lyrics: The Karaoke Channel

• Create poetry books online - really simple & easy to do with great effect & magnet words too: storybird

African American Poets:

http://www.dunbarsite.org/gallery.asp
Famous playwright was a slave in 150 B.C. : http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/terence.html

Mythology:

Path of the Hero Myths - (the most common and engaging myths):

• Star Wars is a modern day myth based on many world mythologies: http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/StarWars/sw-unit1.htm

• George Lucas and myth project - cool small project: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/lessons/george-lucas-and-the-power-of-myth/lesson-overview/1292/

• Odysseus myths on YouTube:

  

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Research:

• ELA TEKS & skills re: Research covered by library research project:

  

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Drama:

• Our very own World Book Database has a Dramatic Learning section with great resource with: plays, lesson plans, various teaching tools, rubrics, play starters, posters for plays, monologues, & more (once logged in go to World Book Classroom):

Promoting Reading & Book Clubs & Circles:

Don't know if you like to read?! :

Click Here for cooool reads you are sure to like!

Don't Know What to Read? - Here is How to Find a Good Book!:

• If you liked _ then you will like __ list:

• http://atn-reading-lists.wikispaces.com/Read+Alikes

• Find a good book to read: http://abookandahug.com/

• What to read next?! : http://bookseer.com/

• Author recommended: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

• Type in an author you like & it will provide authors you may enjoy!: gnooks

• Type in the title of a book & then looking to the right of the page under the heading 'More like this', click 'Similar Items' at the bottom of the list: World Cat

Booktalking, Booktrailers, & Skyping with authors:

Booktalks:

• Hundreds & hundreds of ready booktalks!!! organzied by author, title, etc.! & tips on booktalking: NancyKeane

• Connects you with author's and their books: channel4learning.com

View 1,000's of booktrailers of YA novels or learn how to create booktrailers and :

• View 1,000s of trailers or learn how to teach students create them: booktrailersforall.com/

• School Tube

• teachertube.com/

• slimekids.com/book-trailers/

Meet with the Author of the book: Skype -Little to no $ for author visits!!

• How does Skype work? : crash course: SLJ

• Sign up for Skype: www.skype.com

• List of authors that offer free Skype Q & A sessions: SLJ

• Skype an author network - first 15 min. are free : Skype

Free e-books & films of classic books:

• Free e-books : titles from Dracula and Alice in Wonderland to Sherlock Holmes and Huckleberry Finn http://www.manybooks.net/statistics.php

• Free films to of classic books such as- 'Alice in Wonderland' , ''1984' , etc.: OpenCulture

7. Young Adult Literature Resources for teachers & parents:http://www.adlit.org/

Favorite Book Blogs

-Tweens and Teens Book Blogs:

Follow the many paths of fun facts of your author: smalldemons

• Collection of Reading Blogs: 100 Reading Blogs for Students and Teachers

• GreenBeanTeenQueen - Blog written by a librarian

• African-American authors and urban lit.: http://thebrownbookshelf.com/

• All kinds of links for Hunger Games - including ';Hunger Game Pick Up lines': SLJ

• Mock Printz awards by teens - best of everything: http://evaperrymockprintz.wordpress.com/